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Dimensions: 12”L x 2-3/8”W x 3-3/8”H (measured coupler to coupler)
Also available in an assorted 6-piece dealer pack with 1 of each hopper!
Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy
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Nice looking coal hoppers. Will you be selling the coal loads for these hoppers separately?
Menards always seems to miss the mark with graphics in my opinion. Why not look at a picture of a real car and try to apply graphics to make the cars look similar to real cars? Sorry, the Tyco colors and lettering always kills it for me.
For 19.99 you can't please everyone ..
Some people you can't please at all.
cabinet Bob posted:For 19.99 you can't please everyone ..
It costs just as much to do it right as do it wrong.
Rusty
Rusty Traque posted:cabinet Bob posted:For 19.99 you can't please everyone ..
It costs just as much to do it right as do it wrong.
Rusty
Wonder if menards have a has any without road name?If they do rusty you can buy a few and detail it any way you want.Problem solved!!
I just can't understand the fantasy paint schemes Menards comes up with..
I seen these at my Menards late last week. I didn't say anything because I knew they hadn't announced them here at that time, and I didn't want to spoil the announcement by Mark.
I've often wondered the reason the paint and graphics don't look exactly like the prototype or something that's been produced before is because of licencing and copyright issues. Possibly they have to be altered in some way?
I plan on buying a few of these, they may not be correct to everyone, but I like them. The older I get, I just don't care if it's prototypical or not, and for the price, they are what they are, and that's fine with me.
Rusty
A black single dome tank car will please me.
Well said Rusty !
Rusty Traque posted:cabinet Bob posted:For 19.99 you can't please everyone ..
It costs just as much to do it right as do it wrong.
Rusty
It's only "wrong" if they were trying to make a prototypically correct model; and, I don't think that Menard's has claimed that as their goal.
Why not ask Mark to produce a couple of prototypically accurate models along with their free-lance offerings?
Hey at $19.99, I am happy all the way to the bank!
There has to be an ILLINOIS CENTRAL GULF Four-bay coal hopper produced that has a black body with orange and white graphics.
Andrew
I think the Conrail one is cool!
Sam Jumper posted:Menards always seems to miss the mark with graphics in my opinion. Why not look at a picture of a real car and try to apply graphics to make the cars look similar to real cars? Sorry, the Tyco colors and lettering always kills it for me.
Agreed!
I think Menards has a nice mix of offering both prototypical paint and some that use artistic license to create some nice looking but more toy train type cars. The Conrail blue hopper is actually, as some have stated, reminiscent of a Tyco HO train car of my youth. Not a thing wrong with that! That is the car I will buy actually. The bulk of Menards train market is during Christmas. Christmas is a time of relaxing a bit, and having fun with colorful toy trains. The less realistic schemes will not run in my prototypical consists but it will run on the Christmas floor layout with other less prototypical trains. I do hope Menards will offer the same Conrail hopper in boxcar red with white logos, and I bet they will. I also hope they make a green with white graphics and a black with white graphics Penn Central hopper.
I shop at the local Menards regularly. I notice that the rolling stock inventory sells out. The shelf is full one day and whiped out the next. I see shoppers placing 3 or more cars at a time in their shopping cart. At $20 a car it is easy for people to place a few cars in their cart.
wild mary posted:I just can't understand the fantasy paint schemes Menards comes up with..
Seems to go hand in hand with what Lionel has been doing lately. Seems fit
Earnest question- has the issue with the hoppers been resolved so they turn freely?
I haven’t been following the Menard’s stuff recently, but I had issues with the earlier Morton’s salt offerings. I wouldn’t mind getting a Reading and Northern example, but I don’t need anymore projects.
jhz563 posted:Earnest question- has the issue with the hoppers been resolved so they turn freely?
I haven’t been following the Menard’s stuff recently, but I had issues with the earlier Morton’s salt offerings. I wouldn’t mind getting a Reading and Northern example, but I don’t need anymore projects.
I have run all the new hoppers on smaller curves and have Not had any problems.
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